Welden v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2017
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Fergus v. Russel · State Ex Rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick · O'Coin's, Inc. v. Treasurer of the County of Worcester · Commonwealth v. Dodson · Graham v. Worthington
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of partial veto is the power to disapprove. This is a negative power, or a power to delete or destroy a part or item, and is not a positive power, or a power to alter, enlarge or increase the effect of the remaining parts or items.... Thus, a partial veto must be so exercised that it eliminates or destroys the whole of an item or part and does not distort the legislative intent, and in effect create legislation inconsistent with that enacted by the Legislature, by the careful striking of words, phrases, clauses or sentences [ 39 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e have concluded for reasons hereinafter stated that the parts which were disapproved by the Governor were not provisos or conditions which were inseparably connected to the appropriation. ... [TJhere is nothing in that [item veto cpnstitutional] provision which warrants the inference or conclusion that the Governor’s power of partial veto was not intended to be as coextensive as the Legislature’s power to join and enact separable pieces of legislation in an appropriation bill. As the Legislature can do that in this state, there are reasons why the Governor should have a coextensive power of partial veto, to enable him to pass, in the exercise of his quasi legislative function, on each separable piece of legislation or law on its own merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colton v. Branstad“The powers of the government of Iowa shall be divided into three separate departmentsthe Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial: and no person charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any function appertaining to either of the others, except in cases hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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